Nutrition Publications - Friedman School & HNRCA

Friedman Speaker Series - Frank Hu

"Serving on the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee: Looking Back and Moving Forward"

Abstract

In this talk, Dr. Hu will reflect on his experiences of serving on the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and provide insights into the process of translating nutrition evidence into guidelines and policies. In addition, he will discuss ways to strengthen the nutrition evidence base, improve the process of developing dietary guidelines and enhance the role of nutrition in improving human and planetary health.

Bio

Dr. Frank Hu is Chair of Department of Nutrition, Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He serves as Co-director of the Program in Obesity Epidemiology and Prevention at Harvard and Director of Boston Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (BNORC) Epidemiology and Genetics Core. Dr. Hu is the recipient of the Kelly West Award for Outstanding Achievement in Epidemiology by the American Diabetes Association in 2010 and the American Heart Association’s Ancel Keys Memorial Lecturer in 2018. He has served on the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Preventing the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease, the AHA/ACC Obesity Guideline Expert Panel, and the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, USDA/HHS. He has served on the editorial boards of Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Diabetes Care, and Clinical Chemistry. Dr. Hu is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.